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Patent GB-2146511-A (GB)
Title: Ploughs
Inventor: CUNNINGHAM ANTHONY WILLIAM
IPC: A01B35/18
Filed: 1983-09-13
Abstract: A chisel plough comprises at least one row of tines (2) set in alignment across the width of the plough, and a solid-surface roller (6) mounted (for example on arms 7) behind the row of tines or behind the rearmost row if there are more than one row. As compared with prior chisel ploughs having rollers comprising open slats, the solid-surface roller (6) of the present invention gives good soil breakup in varied conditions and leaves the ground in good condition. The solid-surface roller (6) may be of adjustable height and may have provision for both coarse adjustment (11, 12) and fine adjustment (13). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2147140-A (GB)
Title: Mass spectrometers
Inventor: GRIFFITHS DR BARRIE WILLIAM
IPC: H01J49/40
Filed: 1983-09-20
Abstract: A time-of-flight mass spectrometer, having means 16 for accelerating and directing ions from a sample 10 to form a beam with a predicted trajectory along a time-of-flight tube 14 to a detector 32, includes wire guide means 38, 40 extending along the trajectory and maintained at a potential of typically about +/- 15 volts, of the opposite polarity from that of the sample ions, for guiding the ions to the detector to improve the intensity and resolution of individual mass peaks detected thereby. The tube shown is of the reflectron type, with an ion reflector 30 which, in reflecting the ion beam back to the detector, compensates for any variations in energy of ions of the same mass. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2157749-A (GB)
Title: Submersible manifold unit
Inventor: LEE MALCOLM
IPC: E21B43/017
Filed: 1983-10-19
Abstract: A submersible manifold unit contains well tree(s), flowline(s), ancilliary equipment and manifold and is provided with ballast cells to allow the unit to be deballasted to the surface when access to the equipment is necessary. The unit is normally operated at a depth below the surface to minimise storm and wave effect but can also remain operational while deballasted on the surface. The oil passes from the well via the flexible riser 2, to the manifold unit 1 where the flow is regulated by the control valves. It then flows via a flowline into a manifold. A single buoyant flexible line 4, transfers the oil from the manifold to the floating production and storage system (F.P.S.S.) via a mooring buoy. The manifold unit is anchored with a system of catenery chains or cables and provision is made for automatic positioning using a D.P. system. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2149994-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for processing video signals
Inventor: KAWAKAMI HIDEHIKO
IPC: H04N1/405
Filed: 1983-11-14
Abstract: A method for processing a video signal according to one embodiment is characterized by a first step of storing a video signal derived from each picture element of a scanned original into a video memory, a second step of establishing a scan window 10 in said memory such that the scan window comprises M picture elements adjacent to each other (where M is a natural number e.g. 9), a third step of determining the total sum S of the signal levels of all of said picture elements in said scan window and determining N and A which satisfy the following formula:  S = C x N + A where C represents a given video signal level e.g. 100, N is an integer and 0</=A<C, and a fourth step of identifying each of said picture elements in said scan window with an decreasing number i.e. #1 to #M, in the order of signal level, and transforming the signal levels of the picture elements #1 through #N to a signal level C, transforming the signal level of the picture element #(N + 1) to a signal level A, transforming the signal levels of the picture elements #(N + 2) through #M to a signal level zero, and repeating the second, third and fourth steps with respect to all the stored area of the memory while shifting the scan window by a predetermined number of picture elements. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2130982-A (GB)
Title: Bicycle frame
Inventor: MOULTON ALEXANDER ERIC
IPC: B62K15/00
Filed: 1983-12-01
Abstract: The frame comprises two beams 3, 4 extending between the head tube 10 and the seat tube 12, said beams intersecting one another so that the two beams constitute a cruciform 5 when viewed in side elevation, and including a tie 2 extending, beneath the intersecting beams, between lower regions of the head and seat tubes, said beams each comprising twin peripheral tubes 3a, b, 4a, b which are spaced apart by a structural web 3c, 4c so that each beam is structurally efficient in the transverse plane. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2147883-A (GB)
Title: A stackable container for shirts and other articles comprising anti-slip means
Inventor: MASSIMO INGHIRAMI
IPC: B65D5/62
Filed: 1984-02-28
Abstract: A container 1 comprises walls having flat parallel surfaces constituted by layers of anti-slip paint and intended to come into contact with one another in a pile of such containers 1. The two surfaces which come into contact with one another in a pile are respectively provided with at least one projection 3 and one corresponding recess 4. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2137550-A (GB)
Title: Web cutting
Inventor: HALL ARTHUR
IPC: B26D1/00
Filed: 1984-03-30
Abstract: A plastics web 13, for example in bag manufacture, is cut by an endless band 10 extending round rollers 11 and generally in an inclined plane to the web. Guide rollers 13 make a length 10a of the band at right angles to the web. The band may provide multiple teeth with cutting edges and is moved at a high speed, e.g. 200 to 700 m/min, so that the web is cut by movement of the band through only one or a few teeth pitches, for example in 0.5 millisecond. The web is moved into and out of engagement with the band. The web may be preformed bags but the cutter may be associated with welding heads. The web is stationary during welding and cutting. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2139462-A (GB)
Title: Soil cultivating implements
Inventor: VAN DER LELY CORNELIS
IPC: A01B33/12
Filed: 1984-04-13
Abstract: In a soil cultivating implement of the kind which comprises an elongate frame portion 1 extending substantially horizontally perpendicular to the intended direction of operative travel A of the implement, and which frame portion 1 carries a row of power-rotatable tined (4) soil working members 3, a screen 14 is arranged just beyond each end of said row for soil working co-operation with the nearest member 3. Each screen 14 is displaceably connected to a side plate 5 of the frame portion 1 by an irregular quadrilateral linkage 16 having substantially horizontal pivots which linkage 16 is so arranged that, should the front of the screen 14 encounter a stone or the like, the screen can tilt upwardly without resilient strips 17, by which it is principally constituted, being bent or broken. The extent of upward tilt is rarely sufficient to cause even temporary interruption of the soil working co-operation between the affected screen 14 and the immediately neighbouring rotary member 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162952-A (GB)
Title: Erosion test apparatus
Inventor: JOHNSON RICHARD C
IPC: G01N3/56
Filed: 1984-08-09
Abstract: Erosion test apparatus has an enclosure 46 containing in its test chamber an abrasive medium 62 Also included is a spindle 34 attached to the enclosure and having an inside end adapted to hold a test specimen 47. A motor 14 coupled to the spindle can spin the inside end at an adjustable angular speed within the medium 62. Preferably, a thermal jacket 38 can moderate temperature within the spindle apparatus. The apparatus is used to spin the specimen through the abrasive medium at a chosen speed and then measure the extent of erosion (e.g. by measurement of the mass of material eroded or by the change in diameter of the specimen). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2152301-A (GB)
Title: A non-rewirable electrical plug and a method of moulding therefor
Inventor: HURST DERMOT
IPC: H01R13/68
Filed: 1984-12-10
Abstract: A non-rewirable electrical plug 1 comprises a base member 2 mounting pins 4, 5 to which a corresponding conductor of an electric cable 10 is attached to form connections. In moulding the plug the pins 4, 5 are mounted in a mating recess in a mould and insulating material is moulded around the pins 4, 5 to form the base member 2 which is keyed to the pins 4, 5 through a groove 25 extending around each pin 4, 5. The connections between the pins 4, 5 and conductors are then made and the inner layer 15 is moulded around a portion of the base member 2 to enclose the connections. The outer layer 16 is then moulded around the inner layer 15 to form the body of the plug 1. A lug 45 formed integrally with the inner layer 15 projects to the outer surface of the outer layer 16 to indicate the presence of the inner layer 15 in the finished plug 1. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169774-A (GB)
Title: Microphone arrangement
Inventor: GROVES RONALD JOHN
IPC: H04R1/08
Filed: 1985-01-12
Abstract: A noise cancelling microphone arrangement (5) is provided for a telephone handset (1) designed to incorporate an internal microphone without noise cancelling facility. A noise cancelling microphone (6) with an opening (7) providing sound paths to front and rear sides of a diaphragm (8) therein, is secured by threaded fasteners (9) to an external surface of the handset (1) through existing apertures (3) in a mouthpiece grille region (2). Terminals (10) for the microphone (6) extend through existing apertures (3) in the mouthpiece grille region (2), for connection to wiring in the handset (1). A cover (11) on the microphone (6) has openings to provide first sound paths by which sound pressure may be applied to the front side of the diaphragm (8) and has one or more further openings (12) providing one or more second sound paths to the rear side of the diaphragm (8). The cover (11) is arranged to seat peripherally on the handset (1) via a seal (14) of soft material. Cover (11) also provides an acoustic filter arrangement. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176712-A (GB)
Title: Spring-loaded darts oche
Inventor: CHARNLEY KENNETH
IPC: A63B71/04
Filed: 1985-01-29
Abstract: A spring-loaded darts oche can either be moved against the spring loading to lie flush with the floor within an outer component or can be raised above the floor to an operative position.
Patent GB-2157538-A (GB)
Title: Chicken flavorants and the processes for preparing them
Inventor: TANDY JOHN STEWART
IPC: A23L27/21
Filed: 1985-02-27
Abstract: Chicken flavorants having an organoleptic profile similar to either roast chicken or cooked chicken are prepared by reacting a mixture of leucine and/or its salts with a sulfur-containing compound and a reducing monosaccharide in the presence of a hydroxylated solvent.
Patent GB-2173675-A (GB)
Title: Communication system
Inventor: LERMAN STEVEN HENRY
IPC: H04N7/12
Filed: 1985-03-22
Abstract: A communication system for sending video and audio signals to a telephone line 20 supplies a digitized video signal from a camera 7, A-D converter 25, and frame store 26 to a parallel-series converter 29. The byte signals from the converter 29 and sync signals from a timing generator 31 are supplied to a frequency shift keyer 30 which produces an output signal at any one of several distinct frequencies within the audio frequency band of the telephone line. This output signal is mixed with an audio signal from a telephone apparatus 2 and sent to the line 20. The telephone apparatus is connected to a filter 23 for removing the predetermined frequencies from a received signal. A filter 24 passes the discrete frequencies from the received signal to apparatus 32-37 for processing the received video signal to provide a display on a monitor 38. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2178938-A (GB)
Title: Tractor front mounted pick-up hitch
Inventor: ROBINSON IAN STURMER
IPC: A01B59/06
Filed: 1985-07-13
Abstract: A hitch fitted to the front end of a tractor is operated by hydraulic rams to control the hitch pin and/or the hitch height. These may be operated from within the tractor as may also the safety lock. Other attachments such as pallet forks or front and weights may be used. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2180501-A (GB)
Title: Personalised data carrying assembly and method and apparatus for forming same
Inventor: EVERETT PATRICK JOSEPH
IPC: B42D5/02
Filed: 1985-09-20
Abstract: The invention concerns sealed mailer assemblies including return units made from individual pre- printed sheets (10) in a single production line and a method and apparatus for forming them. The sheets have their longitudinal edges (11) glued and are then formed with a plurality of transverse folds (17) so that the adjacent parts of the longitudinal edges are all secured together. The free transverse edge (12) is also glued down. Tear lines are formed within the glued edges so that on removal of the edge portions several separate pieces are provided. An end panel 13 is provided with adhesive (18) to enable it for form a return envelope or card. An ink jet printing unit is provided within the production line capable of forming accurately positioned personalised information on any data carrying part of each sheet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2170871-A (GB)
Title: Friction material and carrier plate assembly
Inventor: CRAWFORD PETER FREDERICK
IPC: F16D69/00
Filed: 1986-01-15
Abstract: A friction material and carrier plate assembly 2 for a driven plate of a friction clutch comprises a steel disc 4 having a marginal portion 11 formed with through openings 14A spaced by spokes 18A flexible axially of the disc. On each side of the disc annular friction facings such as 20 partially overlie the openings 14A and are bonded to the spokes 18A. The friction facings are also flexible and may have grooves to promote cooling and assist such flexibility. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186248-A (GB)
Title: Overhead chain conveyor
Inventor: WILLIAMS G H
IPC: B61B10/02
Filed: 1986-02-11
Abstract: An overhead chain conveyor comprises a driven chain (1), a track (2) with load bearing capacity and hangers (3) which cooperate with load carriers (4) to which loads to be conveyed are attached. Where required, there is a lower track (5) which can support the load carriers. The load carriers may incorporate features (13, 15) which facilitate accumulation of loads on the lower track. When a hanger (3) and load carrier (4) approach a lower section of track (5), the chain track falls and causes the hanger and load carrier to disengage, thus transferring the load to the lower track, the conveyor functioning in these circumstances as a power and free conveyor. Hangers re-engage load carriers where the chain track rises to its original level. This system allows loads to be controlled independently of the driven chain, thus easing loading and unloading and providing holding and storage positions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2170624-A (GB)
Title: Communication between computers
Inventor: FREESTONE WILLIAM EDMUND
IPC: G06F15/173
Filed: 1986-02-17
Abstract: A shared memory system for a plurality of computers 20 comprises a memory 23 linked to the computers via a series of ports 22 which are opened in turn by a control means 24 to grant access to the memory. The control means receives shared memory access requests from the computers, stores them, and then grants access, in sequence, to those computers which have requested it. Advantageously, a graded priority is assigned to the computers and the access to the shared memory is granted in priority order. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2173770-A (GB)
Title: Closure device for flexible bags and containers
Inventor: ZUMARRAGA SANCHEZ LUIS IGNACIO
IPC: B65D33/16
Filed: 1986-03-20
Abstract: A closure device for a flexible bag or container, comprises a flexible plastics or paper sheet (1) partially and permanently secured directly or indirectly to the bag or container so that apart (1B) of the device is free of, or removably adhered directly, or indirectly to the bag to enable it to be wound about the gathered neck of the bag and thereby effect closure thereof. In one embodiment the device comprises two sheets (1A, 1B) the lower sheet 1A being fixedly adhered to the bag, and the upper or outer sheet (1B) being permanently adhered to the lower sheet (1A) at one end and removably adhered at the other. The lower sheet (1A) may have a release coating to facilitate removal. In another embodiment the device comprises a sheet (1) adhered permanently to the bag at an adhesive part and adhered removably to the bag over a further part. A protective element is employed to aid release. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175344-A (GB)
Title: Security door closure
Inventor: COOPER PETER STEVEN DENNIS
IPC: E05B51/02
Filed: 1986-04-29
Abstract: A security door closure comprises a steel or like door (10) which is received into a reinforced door opening (14) to close therein with compression of a seal (26, 28). The door locks closed by means of bolts (34) which are driven into keeps (36) on the frame of the door opening by hydraulically controlled rams (38). The bolts and the keeps are mutually shaped so that, as the bolts are driven home, the hinges (12) on which the door is mounted permit a terminal closing movement of the door which compresses the seal to ensure a gas/air tight closure able to withstand a pressure differential from either side of the door. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177298-A (GB)
Title: Bottle steady
Inventor: ROBERTSON ROBERT BARRIE
IPC: A47G23/02
Filed: 1986-06-30
Abstract: A bottle steady 101 has a pair of branched legs 102 extending oppositely from a middle portion 111 of a bottle neck grip 101. The middle portion 111 is resilient, whereby the neck of the bottle within the grip is gripped. Thus, the bottle, when laid down, is restrained by the legs 102 from rolling. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197370-A (GB)
Title: Wave dissipation device
Inventor: JUEI-JSE LIN
IPC: E02B3/06
Filed: 1986-09-03
Abstract: A wave dissipation block comprises a hollow structure 1 with a plurality of conical holes 6 in its outer surface which holes are in communication with the hollow interior for wave breaking and wave energy dissipation. The penetrating holes can be made in different size, different slope and different shape for multi-directional wave dissipation effect. The hollow interior space can be installed with some partition walls each with a plurality of penetrating holes. Furthermore, one or more stone inlets 7 can be made on the top of each block for placing stones in the hollow interior space in order to improve its stability and to provide further wave dissipation effect. The surface of each wave dissipation block can have tenons and mortises for interconnection of adjacent blocks. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183609-A (GB)
Title: Separator for piliferous fabric sheets
Inventor: MENDE SIEGFRIED
IPC: B65H3/22
Filed: 1986-10-29
Abstract: Cut pieces of nonwoven fabric with a pile (2), are separated from a stack thereof by means of a support (4) extending above the stack, levers (8) pivotally mounted on the support, a separator head (5) having fabric engaging hooks (17) and pivotally mounted at (6) on the levers (8), and a piston/cylinder assembly (13, 14) pivotally mounted at (7) on the separator head (5), to rotate the head (5) anticlockwise from the position of Figure 1 to engage the hooks (17) progressively with the uppermost sheet (31) and turn the levers (8) to lift the head (5) and the engaged sheet (31). A separator slide (3) is inserted between the lifted sheet (31) and the stack for removal of the sheet (31). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183292-A (GB)
Title: I.C. engine fuel injection nozzle
Inventor: GREEVES GODFREY
IPC: F02M61/08
Filed: 1986-11-04
Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle of the outwardly opening type has a resiliently loaded valve member having a stem 28 extending into a chamber 27. Fuel under pressure from a inlet 22 can flow into the chamber 27 to assist the opening movement of the valve member but after a predetermined movement of the valve member a valve element 26 closes onto its seating to prevent, further fuel flow into the chamber 27, the continued opening movement of the valve member resulting from the action of fuel under pressure on a smaller area of the valve member. The valve element 26 is engaged by the valve member. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183067-A (GB)
Title: Data processing
Inventor: HASEBE ATSUSHI
IPC: G06T1/20
Filed: 1986-11-13
Abstract: An information processing system, for example, for processing video data, includes an input/output section 1, a memory section 2, and a data processing section 3 for communicating data via the memory section 2 in block units between the input-output section 1 and the data processing section 3 to effect processing. A signal indicating an end of the processing in block units is supplied from the data processing section 3 to the input/output section 1 and a processing start timing signal formed depending on the signal indicaating the processing end supplied from the input/output section 1 is supplied to the data processing section 3, the processing start timing signal being synchronized with a data block period. The system is particularly intended for image processing which is accomplished in synchronization with the frame data. Aspects of addressing and data calculation are discussed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183682-A (GB)
Title: Elastomer-free stretch fabric
Inventor: ELLIS JULIAN GARTH
IPC: D04B1/18
Filed: 1986-11-27
Abstract: A warp-knit fabric substantially free from elastomeric fibre yet having good stretch and high elastic recovery can be obtained by using a laid-in yarn 2 with a high degree of stiffness. The laid-in yarn may be a monofilament, a multifilament yarn stiffened by one or more helically wound covers or may use a naturally stiff fibre such as glass or carbon. Suitable synthetic materials are polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester and nylon. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201076-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to retro-reflective animal collars
Inventor: KIRK CHRISTOPHER PETER
IPC: A01K27/00
Filed: 1987-02-12
Abstract: A conventional animal collar is equipped with a number of resiliently mounted retro-reflective teeth arranged to improve the visibility of the animal to vehicle drivers at night time. A design for a cat collar is illustrated in Figure 1 which shows the plan view of such a collar that is manufactured by pressing out from sheet material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2194145-A (GB)
Title: Saliva replacement formulations
Inventor: DONNELLAN MARTIN FRANCIS
IPC: A61K8/73
Filed: 1987-02-16
Abstract: A liquid saliva replacement formulation comprises an aqueous solution of carboxymethylcellulose having a viscosity in the range 170-230 centipoise, a preservative which consists either of a mixture of methyl, ethyl and propyl p-hydroxybenzoate or 2-bromo-2-nitropropane 1,3-diol and a mixture of salts present in normal saliva in a buffer medium which is sufficient to maintain the formulation at a pH in the range 5.8-6.2. The formulation is especially suitable for delivery to the mouth via an atomiser.